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My FOLLIS ancestry tradition is Scots-Irish, those families that moved from Scotland
in the 1600's to Ireland before coming to the United States in the 1700's or earlier. My Thomas FALLIS is first found in 1731 New Jersey. One Ancestry.com FALLIS posting mentions 1840's Massachusett's FALLIS' coming from "Fermanagh Ireland moving from Scotland during the Plantation Era during 1600's." As seen in the map above, there is a Follistown in County Meath, Ireland, but unknown if or how is related to our surname.

The words 'Auld Lang Syne' translates from old Scottish dialect meaning 'Old Long Ago' and is about love and friendship in times past.

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I have NOT researched these families using estates, wills, deeds or other official primary documents. Instead use less reliable and often wrong information found online with possibly some library research.

Thomas' parents the immigrant John THURSTON 1600-1685 England to Massachusetts and Margaret about 1605-1662 of
Massachusetts. John THURSTON arrived at Boston, Massachusetts on the ship Mary Anne of Yarmouth, England June 20, 1637. It sailed from Ipswich, England in May 1637 with William Goose as ships master. John THURSTON
was from Wrentham,
England, 30 years old with his 32 year old wife Margaret, sons Thomas and John, and a 23 year old spinster Lucy Poyett.

Genealogy research is never complete, important details might be missing, and often contains errors, so let me know if your research contradicts mine. My Indiana and Ohio family research comes from conversations with relatives, scrapbooks, library research, online records, visits to courthouses, final resting places on family farms and cemeteries. Families in other states rely mostly on the research of others. Links to other web sites often change then won't work, so if you find broken links, have additional information on any families, corrections, photos, or anything to add to the history of our families, please leave a Comment in my Guest book, join my Follis Families on Facebook page for updates and new discoveries, or send an Email. The Wayback Machine archives most old web pages so copy and paste the broken URL address to find the missing 404 pages that disappeared. I like Dick Eastman's newsletter on using Unverified Data from the internet.